grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Sept 22, 2012 8:23:36 GMT -5
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Post by rockrookie on Sept 22, 2012 9:48:10 GMT -5
Nice collection !!!!
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Sept 22, 2012 12:10:07 GMT -5
Awesome collection......Forsyth area is a rockhounders dream! When living in the Roundup area,I always hunting towards Forsyth.
Always found fossils,dino bone and Indian artifacts.....
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Post by Bikerrandy on Sept 22, 2012 19:27:26 GMT -5
Great collection!! I have some nice stuff that I collected in Tennessee from the freshly plowed corn fields back when I was a kid. Cool stuff  |
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Post by talkingstones on Sept 22, 2012 20:01:04 GMT -5
Great collections! My folks gave me our family collection from when the family settled in the Rockford area of Michigan. It seems that the kids would walk behind their father as he ploughed and pick up the arrowheads. I hope you're going to hang onto them! The stories attached give are a part of your family heritage and will mean a lot to your kids and grandkids!
You should also write down what your uncle told you about them!
Cathy
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jspencer
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Post by jspencer on Sept 26, 2012 23:11:19 GMT -5
Ok......I`m totally jealous now. Nice collection! BTW the large bullet with the ridges around it on the left in your pic is from a civil war era rifle. I have one that came from Appomatax just like it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2012 10:46:23 GMT -5
I will try to remember to have my son take a look at these. He is pretty well versed on what is modern and what is ancient.
Jim
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rockingthenorth
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Post by rockingthenorth on Sept 27, 2012 10:53:14 GMT -5
what a great collection.
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jcinpc
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Post by jcinpc on Oct 10, 2012 12:15:14 GMT -5
very nice collection, all these pre date the historical era, most of those look to be in the archaic period. 4-7000 years old
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Oct 10, 2012 20:34:40 GMT -5
Thanks for the comments, all!
jspencer, It is cool they found the shells and bullets weathered out, or maybe before they were even covered as the homestead was established around 1910, not long after the last Indian wars in these parts. Over the years I have dug quite a few old bullets of various sorts out of old dead trees and stumps.
jcinpc, Thanks so much for the info! I thought some of the larger pieces seemed they may have been made in a manner more primitive than the modern Indians. I think there is a good chance the collection will be donated to a museum in that county. I have found a lot of camps/artifacts up high in the Beartooths near Yellowstone. When we would find camps we generally left them as found. One was a hidden camp nestled in a amphitheater like bowl on top of a mountain. It had a view of the surrounding area from the rim. There was a small lake/pond there, and we found loads of charcoal and chips/shards of obsidian and chert scattered about the edge of the water. Apparently, they would bring material up from the park and hole up here to get it down to knapping/trading size. I believe they would heat the stones in the fire then place them on a deer skin which was lowered into the water, fracturing the materials. On one side of the bowl, there is rock ledges almost arranged like seats, in the crevices under a couple of the ledges, I found several little stashes of small chips of agate and cherts as well as the black obsidian. I felt they had been placed there by Indian children, and I was the first human to see this since. I touched them, and left them undisturbed.
It was a very cool feeling.
Bill
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